In a general sense being a Homer is fine. There's a reason most fans live within 100 miles of the franchise's stadium, arena or field. My younger brother has lived in Chicago, Atlanta, Cincy, Montreal and Charlotte. He tends to follow the local teams.
But there are a few and not just on this site that use the term Homer to mean the fan isn't smart enough to realize the short comings for their team.
Originally Posted by: wpr
Can we agree that how you define homer and what you feel it connotes is critical to this particular debate about whether someone is a big mean bully trying to belittle certain posters?
I posted the definition and my understanding of the term and context for how I operate and not a word was specifically said about that post. Just generalizations. It's like what I said wasn't said and it's been moved back to this mystery status so one could keep alleging how awful I am.
That post should've explained everything and should've stopped all this finger pointing. Don't you understand my perspective is built on an actual definition and isn't being done with malice?
It's as though it's all being avoided.
You don't like the term? I can understand but it doesn't change it's meaning. It doesn't mean someone is better than someone else. It means what it means and there's not much more to it. The belligerent portion of the definition applies perfectly to what I experience when I speak to what homerism even means or what it inhibits a person from.
In the end,all I've done is applied a term per it's definition and taken a lot of vitriol for it's self contained definition truth. Not wrong. Not mean. Not arrogant. Not negative. Just the truth like I've maintained all along. Not a liar, either.
Somewhere you would think there'd be an acknowledgement of my perspective as being from a place of truth not some mean agenda but that would be too much to ask. Wouldn't want anyone to feel bad that they mercilessly gotten me wrong over and over.
What twist of the truth will happen next? Can't wait to read how I'm still awful and I'm wrong about everything.
Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."